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We Can't Pay? We Won't Pay! by Dario Fo, Robert W. Walker
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDario Fo is Italy's leading contemporary playwright and performer, renowned throughout the world for his dazzling radical satires. Can't Pay? Won't Pay! is set in Milan, but "the problems are desperately familiar.. -
![The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins]()
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsThe hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- backed by the United States. In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians...Categorized as:
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![21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph]()
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsBased on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to understanding the legal document and its repercussion on generations of Indigenous Peoples, written by a leading cultural sensitivity trainer...Categorized as:
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![Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks]()
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks—writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual—writes about a new kind of education, educations as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal...Categorized as:
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![Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr.]()
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr.
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives Matter and other struggles to fight police brutality against black communities...Categorized as:
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![Nothing Personal by Imani Perry, Eddie S. Glaude Jr.]()
Nothing Personal by Imani Perry, Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJames Baldwin's critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers.Available for the first time in a stand-alone edition, Nothing Personal is Baldwin's deep probe into the American condition...Categorized as:
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![At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68 by Taylor Branch]()
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68 by Taylor Branch
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAt Canaan's Edge concludes America in the King Years, a three-volume history that will endure as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race, violence, and democracy. Pulitzer Prize-winner and bestselling author Taylor Branch makes clear in this magisterial account of the civil rights movement that Martin Luther King, Jr...Categorized as:
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![Faces and Masks by Eduardo Galeano]()
Faces and Masks by Eduardo Galeano
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe second volume of Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, Faces and Masks is an astonishing Latin American-eye view of the New World in the making. Here is the tangled, cataclysmic history of our hemisphere from the 1700s up to the dawn of our present century, told through characters as resonant and compelling as Simon BolÃr, Toussaint L'Ouverture, and Billy the Kid...Categorized as:
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![Modernity And The Holocaust by Zygmunt Bauman]()
Modernity And The Holocaust by Zygmunt Bauman
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEl Holocausto no fue un acontecimiento singular, ni una manifestación terrible pero puntual de un ‘barbarismo’ persistente, fue un fenómeno estrechamente relacionado con las características propias de la modernidad...Categorized as:
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![James Baldwin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations by James Baldwin, Quincy Troupe]()
James Baldwin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations by James Baldwin, Quincy Troupe
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNever before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin“I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only... -
![Zionist Colonialism in Palestine by Fayez Sayegh]()
Zionist Colonialism in Palestine by Fayez Sayegh
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsZionist Colonialism in Palestine traces the historical roots of the Zionist movement and the uprooting of the ancient Palestinian Arab people from their ancestral homeland...Categorized as:
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![A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell]()
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsControversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes this pattern...Categorized as:
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![You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times by Howard Zinn]()
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times by Howard Zinn
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHoward Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, tells his personal stories about more than thirty years of fighting for social change, from teaching at Spelman College to recent protests against war. A former bombardier in WWII, Zinn emerged in the civil rights movement as a powerful voice for justice...Categorized as:
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![Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976 by Michel Foucault]()
Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976 by Michel Foucault
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn examination of relations between war and politicsFrom 1971 until his death in 1984, Michel Foucault taught at the Collège de France, perhaps the most prestigious intellectual institution in Europe. Each year, in a series of 12 public lectures, Foucault sought to explain his research of the previous year...Categorized as:
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![I Write What I Like: Selected Writings by Steve Biko]()
I Write What I Like: Selected Writings by Steve Biko
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." Like all of Steve Biko's writings, those words testify to the passion, courage, and keen insight that made him one of the most powerful figures in South Africa's struggle against apartheid...Categorized as:
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![Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism by Stokely Carmichael, Kwame Ture]()
Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism by Stokely Carmichael, Kwame Ture
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americans that took place during the evolving movements of Civil Rights, Black Power, and Pan-Africanism...Categorized as:
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![White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret by A.J. Baime]()
White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret by A.J. Baime
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA riveting biography of Walter White, a little-known Black civil rights leader who passed for white in order to investigate racist murders, help put the NAACP on the map, and change the racial identity of America foreverWalter White led two lives: one as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and the NAACP in the early twentieth century; the other as a white newspaperman who covered lynching crimes...Categorized as:
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![The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States by Walter Johnson]()
The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States by Walter Johnson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis.From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis...Categorized as:
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![I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface by Charles M. Payne]()
I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface by Charles M. Payne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South with new material that situates the book in the context of subsequent movement literature... -
![The Structures of Everyday Life: Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Volume 1 by Fernand Braudel]()
The Structures of Everyday Life: Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Volume 1 by Fernand Braudel
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis is the first of three fascinating volumes in which Braudel, the renowned historian and celebrated author of The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World, offers what is in effect an economic and social history of the world from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution. Like everything he writes, it is new, stimulating and sparkles like champagne...Categorized as:
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![Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot]()
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsForeword by Hazel V...Categorized as:
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![The Cold War: A World History by Odd Arne Westad]()
The Cold War: A World History by Odd Arne Westad
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom a Bancroft Prize-winning scholar, a new global history of the Cold War and its ongoing impact around the worldWe tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming to a dramatic end with the collapse of the Soviet Union... -
![Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers by Joseph P. Lash, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.]()
Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers by Joseph P. Lash, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe author combines research and excerpts from Hyde Park papers to illuminate the forty-five-year marriage of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt... -
![Anatomy of the State by Murray N. Rothbard]()
Anatomy of the State by Murray N. Rothbard
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis gives a succinct account of Rothbard’s view of the state. Following Franz Oppenheimer and Albert Jay Nock, Rothbard regards the state as a predatory entity. It does not produce anything but rather steals resources from those engaged in production. In applying this view to American history, Rothbard makes use of the work of John C. Calhoun...Categorized as:
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![Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow by Leon F. Litwack]()
Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow by Leon F. Litwack
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"The stain of Jim Crow runs deep in 20th-century America. . . . Its effects remain the nation's most pressing business. Trouble in Mind is an absolutely essential account of its dreadful history and calamitous legacy." --The Washington Post"The most complete and moving account we have had of what the victims of the Jim Crow South suffered and somehow endured."--C...Categorized as:
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![Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara]()
Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“There is no true social revolution without the liberation of women,” explains the leader of the 1983-87 revolution in Burkina Faso. Workers and peasants in that West African country established a popular revolutionary government and began to combat the hunger, illiteracy, and economic backwardness imposed by imperialist domination. Preface, introduction, map, photos, index...Categorized as:
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![Poetics of Relation by Édouard Glissant]()
Poetics of Relation by Édouard Glissant
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA major work by this prominent Caribbean author and philosopher, available for the first time in EnglishÉdouard Glissant, long recognized in the French and francophone world as one of the greatest writers and thinkers of our times, is increasingly attracting attention from English-speaking readers. Born in Martinique in 1928, Glissant earned a doctorate from the Sorbonne...Categorized as:
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![The Class of '65: A Student, a Divided Town, and the Long Road to Forgiveness by Jim Auchmutey]()
The Class of '65: A Student, a Divided Town, and the Long Road to Forgiveness by Jim Auchmutey
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBeing a student at Americus High School in 1964 was the worst experience of Greg Wittkamper’s life. A member of a nearby Christian commune, Koinonia, Greg was publicly and devoutly in favor of racial integration and harmony. Koinonia’s farm goods were boycotted by businesses for miles around, and they were targeted and attacked with bombs and gunfire by the Ku Klux Klan...Categorized as:
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![Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-1978 by Michel Foucault]()
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-1978 by Michel Foucault
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMarking a major development in Foucault's thinking, this book derives from the lecture course which he gave at the Collège de France between January and April, 1978... -
![We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change by Myles Horton, Paulo Freire]()
We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change by Myles Horton, Paulo Freire
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis dialogue between two of the most prominent thinkers on social change in the twentieth century was certainly a meeting of giants. Throughout their highly personal conversations recorded here, Horton and Freire discuss the nature of social change and empowerment and their individual literacy campaigns...
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